Smallville Cheese

I've been a fan of Smallville the TV show for some time.  I know it's not the greatest show on television, and sometimes the episodes seem a bit contrived.  But the action and characters are good, as are the special effects.  And Erica Durance is nice to look at too.  But the most recent episode, "Roulette", written by Genevieve Sparling, was filled with an unusual amount of cheese and subpar acting.  Also, the plot line was a crappy rip off of the "The Game" staring Michael Douglas.  In this case the Michael Douglas role being played by the character of Oliver Queen.  This season just doesn't feel like it has much drive behind it.  The overall story arc doesn't feel like its going anywhere.  And part of me is hoping that maybe they will throw in the towel after this season and wrap things up.  Maybe Clark will finally learn how to fly.  He got close in one episode, but thus far he's been unsuccessful.   


The TV show heroes has a similar feel to it this season.  The show doesn't seem to know where it's going.  Its as though the writers never planned for the show to go past the second or third season.  Although to be honest the second season wasn't very good either.  I personally stuck it out in the hopes that it would get better, but that's the way I am with TV shows.  It was the same with "Legend of the Seeker".  A truly crappy show that if anything made me want to throw out any copies of the books I owned that it was based on.  If only there was a way to send a message to the producers and writers telling them to do a better job.  I guess we could all just stop watching these shows, but if you like the general story and the characters and want to see where things will go, just without the crud they sometimes put out, then turning off the show would only cause them to cancel it and not improve it.  


So what am I suggesting?  That the shows should take viewer complaints to heart, and work to improve things if the show starts to sag?  This is an age when viewers can comment on shows even before they're done airing.  There were several movies this summer that failed at the box office because of this, the Sacha Cohen movie Bruno comes to mind.  People twittering as they left the theaters advised friends not to bother seeing it and the movie set a record for worst second day in its opening weekend.  I'm not saying that the show's should be run by committee, but they should at least recognize it if they produce a crap show and work to do better the next time.